That's not saying much. In fact, it's a bad TV movie blown up to big screen size. The only real action is at the beginning, and then it's excruciating as we go throug hthe "the hero wasn't really a hero" thing showing how Cochran was a drunken jerk. The Borg stuff is SO OLD, it's the one idea on Next Generation people liked, and the reason was it wasn't like the rest of the show--you just had to keep shooting at them and find a way to blow them up, as opposed to spouting liberal pieties and winning "aliens" olver. Didn't it occur to them that they were cramming their advertisements with spaceships and explosions and fights, while the shows were filled with talk, and talk, and more talk? Next Generation is the most overrated TV show ever, to me, because it wasn't about telling dramatic stories, merely setting up little paper tiger arguments and yapping about it for an hour.
The only good thing about First Contact was the score. I was at a performance of it at Carnegie Hall and it was just magnificent.
I don't think ST should be revived, but the LAST thing I'd want is for it to continue in the tradition of anything post-Original Series.
What makes this such a bad idea is that the whole series idea is basically not very original, it's the combination of actors, photography, good TV writing, music, and all the other elements that MADE it good, from an idea that had been used a million times in books and magazines.
What needs to be done is to reconfigure this series OR come up with a new, similar one, that attempts to take a more serious point of view. Examples: They need to come in contact with ALIEN aliens, not just humans in makeup; don't just toss off the problems they would encounter on these missions, like FTL and language barriers with "Oh, we have a transaltor" or super-duper engine.
The galaxy has to not be so damned SMALL. I tuned out of Next Generation very early because it made space exploration as boring as a day at the office; there was always someone who could back you up handy when needed, and they were always dealing with stupid political crap within The Federation.
And, the BIG one...characters have to be killed off not because the actors contracts are up, but to make the point that space exploration is dangerous. When you know the regulars will be back next week, you're losing all kinds of dramatic tension and story possibilities. I think this is a taboo that will one day be broken, as the formats of such shows as Sopranos, Lost and others show, you CAN mess with the Unbreakable Laws and win ratings.
I was kinda hoping for DS9 movie myself. I think DS9 had some of the best secondary actors ever in a TV series.